Report: 'service delivery threatens independence'

By Helen Warrell, Third Sector, 31 October 2007

The third sector's increased role in public service delivery is stifling its distinctiveness and damaging its contribution to civil society, according to new research by the Carnegie UK Trust.

The trust's report, The Shape of Civil Society to Come, claims that the concentration of resources in a smaller number of large organisations threatens the sector's independence and autonomy. It goes on to criticise the "conformity of governance" among voluntary and community groups that are using corporate and enterprise models...

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